Investment Q&A

Q: Can you rank the stocks best to worst in your opinion. These are the stock s that are in my Financial Services Sector. Would you add, swap or remove any of them? My portfolio holdings/thoughts are very similar to your BE Portfolio. I was thinking to remove RY. Thank you and great job.

Q: Spring cleaning of my portfolio, I have many small positions that did poorly over the last few years but that I never sold (hoping for a comeback I guess...). Here is the list, can you please adivse if I should sell or hold (keeping in mind it s a small portion of my portfolio and I have excess cash to invest outside these positions) :

Bellatrix BXE
Capstone Mining CS
Argonaut AR
Black Diamond BDI
Canyon FRC
Newalta NAL
Baytex BTE
CDN Equip CFL
RMP Energy RMP
Wi Lan WIN

Also, are VET and Peyto still your top picks for the energy sector (long term hold). Thank you

Q: Big drop in Enghouse today.
Do you think there has been another development at Google or amazon?

Q: Can you rank the stocks best to worst in your opinion. These are the stock s that are in my technology sector (17% weighting). Would you add, swap or remove any of them? My portfolio holdings/thoughts are very similar to your BE Portfolio. Thank you and great job.

Q: Over the last few years, I've become familiar with the likes of David Stockman, Marc Faber, Jim Rickards, Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers, and other well-known perma-bears. They spend a lot of time warning about sky high stock valuations, extreme asset inflation generally, the banning of cash, the importance of precious metals, impending market crashes, runs on banks, the freezing of stock exchanges, and other light fare. I try to balance their dire outlook with more sanguine perspectives, but I'm always wondering if some of the extreme scenarios they envision will ever materialize.

For instance, Marc Faber appeared on BNN a few days ago, warning that the share prices of some of the most successful companies are headed to zero in the coming years. He didn't specify which ones.

Are you familiar with any of these pundits, and should any of their warnings be taken seriously? Thanks for your thoughts. I'm due back at the bunker now...

Q: Hi 5i Team,
I recently learned that Canada has enacted a "bail-in" regulation so that systemically important financial institutions can recapitalize by converting some of their liabilities (deposits) into capital should another financial shock occur. Is this fact? How does this regulation work and How does one avoid forced conversion of savings?

Thanks for you great service.
Regards,
Danny

Q: Comments on AVO earnings please - thanks

Q: Can you give me the projected revenue and earnings for 2017 and 2018 (and 2019 if available) for these two companies, thanks.

Q: Hi 5i;
Just a curiosity question . My current Financial planner has me invested in a couple ETF`s with MER`s of about .96% . That MER expense gets paid out of my fund but who gets that amount , my Financial Planner or the company the ETF is purchased from ?
Thanks
Bill

Q: Just got an email from TD about TOY.
pin Master Corp.

Short Description: Secondary Offering of Common Shares via Bought Deal
Price: $40.75 CDN per share.
Settlement: On or about May 24, 2017.

Any comments?

Q: What are all the experts saying on the BAD pricing, Is it a buying oppurtunity, or a risky hold

Q: Hi 5i team,

Is your advice still to hold on to BAD? Its down another 9 % today.

Thank you

Q: What to do with cuf.un,down like a lead balloon!!!

Q: Is the drop in value of ECI in line with their earnings miss? Seems like a bigger correction than one would expect. I've read your comments from last week, but wonder if today's price action may alter the view at all?

Q: Hi All!

Just a quick comment for whats its worth

5i Research Answer:
A couple of notes, first.
Badger has a much longer public history than PSN. We have heard the 'no competitive advantage' argument against BAD ever since it went public.



I often had to deal with hydrovacs trucks. One day I was driving around a clean Harbors super - who had worked as a BAD foreman for a few years before. We were looking at a couple of his C.H. hydrovacs doing a job. He pointed out to me that for the same job, the BAD trucks would have been in and out of there in 4 hours while the Clean Harbors trucks which were there sucking for over 8 hours were not done yet.

Feel free if you want to use
Have a good week! Dom

Q: I am designing my portfolio more and more towards steady and reliable blue chip names. I would like to have your opinonion on what blue chip stocks ands or etf's would be good to hold in a TFSA. I have quite a good profit in New Flyer and Savaria in my TFSA, and although tempted to keep them thought i might trim them and begin filling the tfsa with the afore mentionned type of stocks.
thanks

Q: Almost every investing article we read state "investors" doing whatever... Whenever I read that, I think of us little guys poring over our computers at the kitchen table. But I know better than that. I know "investors" are dominated by the big funds, insurance companies, pension funds, etc. But I'm curious. What percentage of investors are the retail investors?

Q: Can you rank the stocks best to worst in your opinion. These are the stock s that are in my Consumer Cyclical (Discretionary) sector. Would you add, swap or remove any of them? My portfolio holdings/thoughts are very similar to your BE Portfolio. Thank you and great job.

Q: Would appreciate your opinion about taking a full position in CJT for 2-3 year investment. Thanks.

Q: Hi All. I am interested in transitioning out of Enercare...Looking for your best short-medium term opportunity. quite prepared to buy something that is considered higher risk than ECI and willing to go small cap if you suggest. Thoughts?